Editor’s Toolkit: Using Transitional Wipes with Adobe® Premiere®
The black and white transitional wipes in the Editor's Toolkits are used to
transition from one clip to another, using the animated matte to define the
transparency between the two clips.
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A black and white Transition Wipe from an Editor's Toolkit is used in this example to transition from one clip to another. |
To use a transition wipe (matte) in Adobe® Premiere®:
1. Arrange your clips on the timeline (transitioning from A-Roll to B-Roll -
Figure 1):
* Video 3: transition matte
* Video 2: A-Roll
* Video 1: B-Roll
Figure 1 - The timeline in Premiere® with a transition wipe.
2. Add a Track Matte Key to the clip on Video 2: Effects > Video Effects
> Keying > Track Matte Key.
3. In the Effects Control window (for the clip on Video 2), select the Track
Matte Key and set the Matte to Video 3 (Figure 2).
Figure 2 - In the Track Matte Key Effect Control for the clip in Video 2. Set
the Matte to "Video 3" and the Composite Using mode to "Matte
Luma."
4. Set Composite Using to Matte Luma (Figure 2).
5. Click the Toggle Track Output off for the Video 3 track (Figure 3).
Figure 3 - Click the Toggle Track Output in Video 3.
6. If you preview the transition, you'll see that it all works, except that
the A-Roll in Video 2 does not show up anymore. To fix this, copy and past the
clip from Video 2 into a new track on Video 4 and trim it back so it doesn't
cover the transition. You can do a little more trimming for neatness (Figure 4),
but this isn't strictly necessary.
Figure 4 - The final timeline with the duplicated Video 2 clip moved to Video
4 and trimmed.
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